Willow: I'm sorry you're feeling defeated. You've had such a rough time recently with all that happened. Don't give up. You're a smart and good person and you can get through this. You may not feel like it now, but you're much stronger than you think.

junkDNA: I'm so glad you had a nice day! That's great.

Cracking: Uhg, I hate the flu. My husband had a really bad one just before Christmas, it lasted about 6 days. Just try to rest and drink a lot of fluid. If you think you're really bad maybe call your doctor and see if you can get tamaflu.

pauly: Working in health care I think that pdocs are just like regular docs. The only difference is they decided to go into psychiatry instead of internal medicine or family practice or whatever. A lot of doctors have the god complex. A lot of doctors think what they say is what they say and non-compliant patients need are idiots who should be forced. I see a parallel all the time with diabetes in internal medicine/family practice when it comes to non-compliance. I swear if they could give me handcuffs, a badge, and a van with a cage, I'd be out driving around to patients houses dragging them in by force to see the diabetes educators. I'm not even kidding or exaggerating. I think you have to have a very specific personality type to become a doctor. Of course, there are exceptions and those exceptions are always the best doctors.

Medicalfox: Just because you don't connect with one patient doesn't mean it will be true with all patients. As a receptionist I can tell you that some people are super talkitive, some are humorous, some are always grumpy no matter what, some are just jerks, and some are shy and quiet. There are so many people and so many types of people. I don't connect with everyone who comes through our door.

But, if you really feel it will be an issue going forward, with your CNA background maybe you could go into clinical research? I would have gone into research if I could have. There are a lot of branches and levels with and without patient contact. Where I work we have a clinical research department and I so wish I could join but you require a degree. I think it's already hard to be a CNA anyway, that's a hard job.

Newtus: that's a pretty yuck dream. And the fact they made you watch Barney is kind of funny. I don't like Barney either. Haha. I'm sorry it was a bad dream. I dreamed that I was in a post-apocolyptic world scrounging some ruins for supplies. But, I also am playing that game The Last of Us so I think it had a direct effect on my dream.

Can you guys tell I can read today?